It’s very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don’t get anywhere with it. There’s no friction in it. There’s no trouble. You have to have trouble. Somebody’s got to get in trouble, or no one wants to read it.
– Paul Bowles
Category: Quotable
Quotable 155
Tell a story! Don’t try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first.
– Anne McCaffrey
Quotable 154
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
– Edgar Allan Poe
Quotable 153
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.
– Rumi
Quotable 152
Story-telling is an instinct to come to terms with mystery, chaos, mess.
– Graham Swift
Quotable 151
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
– Orson Welles
Quotable 150
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
– Maya Angelou
Quotable 149
You can fix anything but a blank page.
– Nora Roberts
Quotable 148
Fiction’s about what it is to be a human being.
– David Foster Wallace
Quotable 147
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It’s not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
– Augusten Burroughs